UPDATE: Amtrak restores service from Albany to Boston

The Lake Shore Limited service between Albany and Boston will resume this afternoon, Amtrak has announced. Cleanup operations following last weekend’s snowstorm were completed earlier than expected, and CSX, which owns the tracks, gave the go-ahead for the resumption of passenger service.

The Lake Shore Limited is a daily service that operates in two sections from Boston and New York City, which are combined at Albany-Rensselaer for the trip to Chicago. Train #448, the Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited, was due to depart later this afternoon.

Amtrak also said full Vermonter service would be restored northbound Thursday and southbound on Friday. That train runs between St. Albans, Vt., and Washington, D.C., via Springfield and Hartford.